How to make an inky background with blending brushes and water!

Hello, I hope you are well.

I had an idea in my head about blending green inks as a background and spritzing it with water to see what cool effects it might show. So I recorded my process of making this card…

I’d love you to click on the image below to check it out…

Or you can watch the video by CLICKING HERE

As you’ll see from the video I blending 4 green inks onto a piece of Basic White Thick card, that withstands the water a bit better than regular Basic White card, using blending brushes. I made sure I had plenty of ink on the card layer so there was enough to react when I spritzed it with water. A fine mist helps blur the lines of the ink colours and give a subtle mottled effect. Larger drops of water will lift off more of the colour and give a great effect too, so you just can’t go wrong!

I stamped the flowers and butterflies from the Dragonfly Garden stamp set with Versamark ink, added black embossing powder and heat set it. I do love the shine from heat embossing!!

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink onto Basic Black card, added white embossing powder and heat set that too. I simply trimmed my black card with my paper snips but you could die cut this or take your time and use your paper trimmer to get a neater sentiment label.

To add some shimmer and shine I splashed the card with Wink Of Stella and added some Festive Pearls.

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project and will try it out too.

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I’ve listed the products I used for both of my versions of this project below. You can click on any of the links in the Product List to visit that item in my online Stampin’ Up! store.

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Happy crafting,

Heather x

Product List

Dragonfly Garden Cling Stamp Set [154411] £22.00	Basic White A4 Thick Cardstock [159230] £8.25	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688] £8.75
Basics Embossing Powders [155554] £17.00	Versamark Pad [102283] £9.00	Mint Macaron Classic Stampin' Pad [147106] £7.50
Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [147089] £7.50	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] £7.50	Shaded Spruce Classic Stampin' Pad [147088] £7.50
Blending Brushes [153611] £11.75	Stampin' Spritzer [126185] £3.25	Festive Pearls [159963] £6.75
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50